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[Misc] Humming people



BN9 BHA

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Then thank your lucky stars that humming isn’t an autistic trigger for you - some noises can literally cause us physical pain.
I have serious tinnitus in one ear that causes me all sorts of issues, I wouldn’t wish this on anybody. Maybe I should thank my lucky stars.

I did work in a customer’s property and they had a commercial country music station playing all day, to be honest it nearly made me want to go to the pub after work and start drinking again.

It was a light hearted joke but never mind
 




Zeberdi

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It was a light hearted joke but never mind
It was a light-hearted dig at my taste in music - I didn’t take offence.😀

Just explaining why that particular style of music works for my autism and allows me to multi-task.

I have had tinnitus in one ear since my teens - It actually doesn’t bother me that much - in a way, I have grown to find comfort in the sound of the outside world suddenly switching off and having a high pitched ringing in my ear instead - that’s how much external noise can trigger me, to the point that tinnitus can be a comfort!

If I had hearing aids, I would be one of those people constantly switching them off to be ‘selectively deaf :lol:
 
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pasty

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Jul 5, 2003
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I’d probably have changed carriages if that had happened when I was commuting………also hated people having loud conversations, non-commuters on the train (ie people who didn’t know that it’s FORBIDDEN to talk throughout the journey, especially early mornings), people eating (especially anything noisy, smelly or those unable to keep their gob shut when chewing), people with crap tinny headphones, people BASHING away on their keyboards so hard the carriage shakes, kids, anyone playing games online with audible sound…….

God I hated commuting :laugh:
The laptop keyboard bashers are top of my hated commuter list. Usually cockwombles who feel a need to show everyone just how important and clever they think they are.
 


Grizz

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Whilst I would be considerate and not do it on a packed commuter train, I do thoroughly enjoy a good hum or whistle whilst walking from Gloucester Road to South Kensington before the start of my shift. A nice 10 minute day-dream-a-thon before having to deal with work. As Arnold Rimmer would say 'Marvellous!' 😁
 










Harry Wilson's tackle

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Oct 8, 2003
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I've accidently managed to get on the same train as a middle-aged humming man several times the last month and quite quickly found myself a new hopefully lifelong object of hatred: people who hum or whistle.

Everyone is sitting nice and calmly on the train, waiting quietly for either winter or life to end. Except this lad, who sits and hums indecipherable rhythmless noices.

I look around me and expect to see a dozen people restraining themselves from strangling the man, but no. People just seem to accept it.

Anyone share my new hatred of humming people or am I alone in this agony?
My ex wife used to hum nonexistent tunes when stressed.

I recommend moving seat.

Or do what I do. I cannot stand any chatter or (worse) audible music on the train so I never travel without my own personal music system (very expensive headphones and an iPod on random play :thumbsup:
 




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Then thank your lucky stars that humming isn’t an autistic trigger for you ☹️ - some noises can literally cause us physical pain. Wearing headphones and listening to a music station with no dialogue is the way I cope. Like millions of people around the world, I enjoy Country music but apart from that, I find it is great ‘easy listening’ music to type by when I am working - the driving repetitive rhythm and simple lyrics soothe my autistic brain in environments that are overbearing with sensory triggers.
I have asked (when I say ask....) people to shut up on trains (before I bought my expensive headphones).
 


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It was a light-hearted dig at my taste in music - I didn’t take offence.

Just explaining why that particular style of music works for my autism and allows me to multi-task.

I have had tinnitus in one ear since my teens - It actually doesn’t bother me that much - in a way, I have grown to find comfort in the sound of the outside world suddenly switching off and having a high pitched ringing in my ear instead - that’s how much external noise can trigger me, to the point that tinnitus can be a comfort!

If I had hearing aids, I would be one of those people constantly switching them off to be ‘selectively deaf :lol:
I took it as a light hearted dig a country music rather than your taste in it.

Whenever people mock music I like I always assume they are mocking the music rather than me.

Crikey. I'm now wondering whether I'm inappropriately secure and self-confident :ohmy:

:wink:
 






Birdie Boy

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Jun 17, 2011
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Every now and then I have to tell the wife to STFU when she starts humming, bloody annoying.
Also people that keep sniffing, not the wife, she would never do that. I ask "do you need a tissue?' They always reply, 'no, I'm fine'. 'Your not fine you're a rude, annoying ****!'
 


Professor Plum

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No, you are not alone - it drives me to distraction - even worse when there’s no discernible or particular tune.

My complete intolerance to it is probably to do with being neurodivergent- I process sounds differently to neurotypical people -every ambient sound in an environment is magnified and intensified.

I work a shared office, fortunately my colleagues don’t hum but one of them crunches crisps, apples and biscuits all day, the other types with little fingers tapping on her keyboard in a really annoying monotone clicking with her fingernails .. I literally feel my blood pressure rise just hearing these sounds and I visualise throwing apples and keyboards out of the window whilst keeping a dead pan expression and quietly carrying on with my work :lol: I plug in headphones and listen to a country music station on my desk top most of the day unless I’m discussing work, bird watching or football with my colleagues.

All in a normal day in the life of someone with a neurodivergent brain.😉
There are worse office habits than daring to type on a keyboard and snacking. I can imagine them grumbling to their mates, ‘And he spends all day listening to country music and muttering to himself, writing these long messages on football websites.’ 😏
 


Giraffe

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I do it a lot I am afraid. May well be a bit of autism or something. I recall David Cameron likes a hum...
 






Zeberdi

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There are worse office habits than daring to type on a keyboard and snacking. I can imagine them grumbling to their mates, ‘And he spends all day listening to country music and muttering to himself, writing these long messages on football websites.’ 😏
Really?

I post a straight up and honest post why I as an autistic person find things like humming a trigger and how listening to music calms me and this is your response? To mock me?

This post doesn’t put you in a very good light.

For the record- admitting to being autistic doesn’t give people Carte Blanche to mock me, constantly berate my posting behaviour then gaslight me by saying I am taking it personally- I don’t find the constant teasing and trolling about my posting content funny - I find it exhausting and it triggers anxiety so please STOP.
 
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Han Solo

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I do it a lot I am afraid. May well be a bit of autism or something. I recall David Cameron likes a hum...
Maybe this is subconsciously why you run the stay up-tracker every year. You want to give something back to the society after MURDERING it.
Post-torture cuddling.
 






Seagull58

In the Algarve
Jan 31, 2012
8,512
Vilamoura, Portugal
No, you are not alone - it drives me to distraction - even worse when there’s no discernible or particular tune.

My complete intolerance to it is probably to do with being neurodivergent- I process sounds differently to neurotypical people -every ambient sound in an environment is magnified and intensified.

I work a shared office, fortunately my colleagues don’t hum but one of them crunches crisps, apples and biscuits all day, the other types with little fingers tapping on her keyboard in a really annoying monotone clicking with her fingernails .. I literally feel my blood pressure rise just hearing these sounds and I visualise throwing apples and keyboards out of the window whilst keeping a dead pan expression and quietly carrying on with my work :lol: I plug in headphones and listen to a country music station on my desk top most of the day unless I’m discussing work, bird watching or football with my colleagues.

All in a normal day in the life of someone with a neurodivergent brain.😉
Country music is much, much worse than the noise distractions you have mentioned. There's a reason it starts with c**t.
 


Official Old Man

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Aug 27, 2011
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Brighton
I'm that man.
Well not him on the train, but my wife complains that I hum away when doing chores. I just hate silence. Always seems to be The Great Escape as well, no idea why.
 


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